Greenpeace Plants Disposable Chopstick Forest In China

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Greenpeace Plants Disposable Chopstick Forest In China

I was quite shocked when I found out that the Chinese go through a staggering 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks each year. This equates to about 25 million trees and current analysts have predicted that if this continues China's forests will be gone in 20 years.

This is where the new Chinese Greenpeace campaign comes in. Titled, "我本是一棵绿树" (Wǒ běn shì yī kē lǜ shù) or in English "I Was Once A Tree", Greenpeace and local artist Yinhai Xu created a forest, made entirely from disposable chopsticks, and 'planted' it at 'The Place' in Beijing.

Over 200 students from 20 Chinese universities had to collect the 80,000 pairs of used chopsticks to produce the artistic masterpiece called "The Disposable Forest".

The launch was attended by Xiao Wei, avid Greenpeace campaigner and lead singer of the Chinese Punk band 'Catcher In The Rye".

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